Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aftermath of Christchurch earthquake as residents start to clean up".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aftermath of Christchurch earthquake as residents start to clean up".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. University student Sam Johnson organised through Facebook students to go into the suburbs to help residents clean up after Saturday morning's earthquake. They gathered in Halswell to help residents clean up the silt from their properties. James Litchwark (L) and James Wigzell shovel dirt from 2A Larsons Road, Halswell".
Residents of Christchurch's coastal suburbs around New Brighton are being promised they won't have to wait another decade for an urgently needed new bridge. The existing one is a critical emergency escape route but is almost 100 years old and suffered significant damage in the 2011 earthquake. And as Timothy Brown reports, plans for an upgrade are grinding slowly ahead.
The Earthquake Commission has completed ground tests in Canterbury.
Some Christchurch residents were able to get out of the city to stay with relatives.
The downpours have added yet another problem for Christchurch residents living in earthquake-stricken homes.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Tim Williams, who arranged help for Bexley residents, following Canterbury's earthquake".
Residents watching two arborists working, one on the tree and one working on the ground.
Many Christchurch residents have used shipping containers and other temporary structures to store belongings in while repairs were carried out after the earthquakes. But the Christchurch City Council says it's had an increase in complaints from residents about containers and other temporary structures obscuring neighbours' views or obstructing council berms. Chairman of the council's regulation and consents committee David East says if earthquake repairs are completed, the container may have to go.
There has not been substantial research conducted in the area of fraud and natural disasters. Therefore, this study sought to examine the perceptions of Canterbury residents toward the recovery process following the September 2010 and February 2011 earthquakes and whether residents felt as though contractor fraud occurs in Canterbury. A questionnaire was developed to gauge information about Canterbury residents’ self-reports involving the earthquakes, specific contractors involved, parties involved with the recovery process in general, and demographic information. Participants included a total of 213 residents from the Canterbury region who had been involved with contractors and/or insurance companies due to the recovery process. Results indicated that a high percentage of the participants were not satisfied with the recovery process and that almost half of the participants reported feeling scammed by contractors in Canterbury after the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes. Moreover, the results indicate that participants neither agreed with the assessments made about their property losses nor the plans made to recover their properties. In many cases, participants felt pressured and even reluctant to accept these assessments and/or plans. The present study does not seek to explain why contractor fraud exists or what motivates scammers. Conversely, it attempts to demonstrate the perceptions of contractor fraud and satisfaction that have taken place in the aftermath of the Canterbury earthquakes.
Showcases creative long drop toilets that Christchurch residents have installed following the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake.
A chart showing the status of rest home residents evacuated following the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
Shopping or retail therapy is helping some Christchurch residents return to normality after the February earthquake.
A graph showing the result of a poll of satisfaction among Red and Green Zone residents.
A photograph of Coralie Winn standing next to a Lyttelton resident at the Lyttelton Petanque Club.
A Christchurch red zone resident is helping train Nepalese teams to safely demolish buildings damaged in the Nepal earthquake.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Volunteers help clean up liquefaction on Acland Avenue. Robson Avenue resident Kelly Gearry".
Banks are urging Christchurch residents experiencing financial hardship following last week's earthquake to approach them for help.
A local resident photographed with students in the Student Volunteer Army cleaning up silt after the earthquake.
One of the two victims from Monday's earthquake lived in the remote alpine settlement of Mount Lyford in north Canterbury.
Lyttelton Port near Christchurch is now almost three and a half hectares larger than it was before the earthquakes - as earthquake rubble is dumped in the harbour to reclaim land.
Many people in Christchurch have taken up smoking again or are going through more cigarettes a day since earthquakes began rattling the region.
A hundred beneficiaries in Canterbury are to be taken off the dole, and employed to help patrol the streets in a bid to reassure people living in red zoned suburbs that are all but deserted.
More than two weeks after the massive earthquake that rocked Canterbury, some living in one of Christchurch's worst hit suburbs are feeling neglected and abandoned.
People living near an earthquake dump site in Christchurch are fed up with the constant noise, dust and vibrations from passing trucks which is making them feel like they are living on a motorway.
A scanned copy of a black and white photograph of women from a University of Canterbury hall of residence in the 1950s. The photograph was sourced from archives held at the Macmillan Brown Library.
A magnitude six earthquake which struck in Canterbury just before quarter-past-nine Wednesday morning has left some nearby residents feeling a bit shaken. The quake, which struck 45 kilometres north of Geraldine at a depth of ten kilometres, was located in the Southern Alps, away from populated areas. It was widely felt in Geraldine, Timaru and Temuka - though there are no reports of serious damage or injury. Timaru District Council says it's closing a stadium and other facilities for assessment. Two people who experienced the quake, Janene Adams who's deputy chair of the Geraldine Community Board, and from further north, and the operator of the Mount Somers Holiday Park, Maureen Meanwell, spoke with Charlotte Cook
Information and advice from official sources for Christchurch residents in the aftermath of the 22 February earthquake (aftershock).
A map showing locations in and around the residential red zone that have significance for one Dallington resident.